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. 2022 Mar;22(3):84-86.
doi: 10.1016/j.bjae.2021.12.002. Epub 2022 Feb 2.

Is accepted practice in regional anaesthesia really 'best practice'?

T Abouzied  1 , A Wilson  1
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Is accepted practice in regional anaesthesia really 'best practice'?

T Abouzied et al. BJA Educ. 2022 Mar.
No abstract available

Keywords: local anaesthetics; regional anaesthesia; ultrasound.

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Figures

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Fig 1
Ultrasound image after a subsartorial block lateral to the femoral artery (FA) illustrating the OOP path taken and the potential IP path through the nerve to vastus medialis (NVM). IP, in-plane; OOP, out-of-plane.
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